CANDLE SYNCHROTRON RESEARCH INSTITUTE

Science, Accelerator Physics, Technology & Engineering, Education

CANDLE SRI is a research institute, founded in 2002. The present scientific activities of the institute involve multidisciplinary sciences, such as: accelerator physics, laser physics, materials science, experimental biology and radiation physics. The actual laboratories established at CANDLE are:

RF (radiofrequency) laboratory

Laboratory of Experimental Biology

Microscopy laboratory (Scanning Electron-SEM, optical and two-photon microscopy)

Laboratory of Advanced Materials

Laboratory of Vacuum Technologies (vacuum welding, brazing, systems and sub-systems), Femtosecond laser-based DELTA laboratories (two-photon experimental station, laser generated THz radiation, micro-fabrication experimental station)

AREAL – a laser driven photocathode RF gun based electron accelerator with ultra-short (sub-picosecond) pulses, up to 150 pC bunch charge and up to 5 MeV energies.